https://www.thelandgardener.com/scrapbook daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ef2bea7c1672d3382d74a6c/1593023171062/SCRAPBOOK.jpg Scrapbook https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee784f024b6a8285b30534a/1592696701864/SCRAPBOOK2.jpg Scrapbook Lockdown hairdo from Vita Sackville-West. Loving the sliver of white cuff that matches Harold’s pocket handkerchief. Dreaming of her boots (left). Although crude we love these honest lupins which fix nitrogen in the soil (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee784fc22db6704c9324b18/1592232028882/SCRAPBOOK3.jpg Scrapbook Liquid hips luring us east. Costume Designs for Khadra created by Celia Franca for Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1946. She went on to found the National Ballet of Canada (left). Adore the ruff on circus acrobatic (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee78508915ac6464bf06773/1592232079497/SCRAPBOOK4.jpg Scrapbook Scalloped edges tango through tulles and along the canal of Chateau de Courances, France; a garden we love. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7851022db6704c932501a/1592232228784/SCRAPBOOK5.jpg Scrapbook Scalloped dress pines for endlessly long legs and beautifully polished shoes. Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby by James Jacques Tissot, 1870. Private Collection. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7852170e0f04061a68e44/1592232274372/SCRAPBOOK6.jpg Scrapbook Flower petals and foliage on Ice-cream cake made in memory of Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau tempt those in lockdown behind Sicilian striped awnings. We love Puckler’s “Letters of a Dead Man”, a series of letters home to Germany from his tour around gardens of England in the 1820s. He suffered from “parkomania” a deep love of landscaped parks. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7852fc6fcc20e01b8684a/1592579233648/SCRAPBOOK7.jpg Scrapbook Loving tights of 1940s Ballet Russe dancer Andre Eglevsky, and footwear and arch of plucked eyebrows on Italian ladies (a new Land Gardener line of shoes?). We long to dance around the garden like Pamela May in Dante Sonata, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton for Sadler’s Wells, Royal Ballet, London 1940 with music by Franz Liszt. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ef39a6de8d23a4f386959a3/1593023471872/SCRAPBOOK+REPLACEMENT+SLIDE8.jpg Scrapbook A Spring Garden prepared by Miss Rhode “it provides an excellent opportunity for experiment”; Gardens and Gardening 1935 (left).1970s herbaceous border beyond the spire of St Mary’s church in Bampton village in the Cotswolds; Great Gardens of Britain by Peter Coates 1977, published by Treasure Press, 1977 (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ef39a9861e1d2619fffb217/1593023436357/SCRAPBOOK+REPLACEMENT+SLIDE9.jpg Scrapbook Love spring yellow. Weaving dancers in head-dresses (The Ballet Annual edited by Arnold L Haskell, 1947) and wild yellow lilies – Lilium speciosum – in the arms of film director, Sergei Parajanov, director of The Colour of Pomegranates, 1969 – a film we love. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee78560d7f48c18e80e7754/1592235210506/SCRAPBOOK10.jpg Scrapbook Perfect balance and puffed sleeves of circus act and perfect pale pink gate in the Walled Garden at The Royal Gardens of Highgrove. We love “Harmony” by HRH, the Prince of Wales. “Harmony is a blueprint for a more balanced, sustainable world that the human race must create to survive”. As our hero The Prince of Wales says “we have to embark on a sustainability revolution”. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee793e471b920616b94c0a0/1592662545176/SCRAPBOOK11.jpg Scrapbook From the streets to the straits of Istanbul – inspiration for our new garden tents. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7856c2592fe511c838ef6/1592579776085/SCRAPBOOK11.jpg Scrapbook Moss green eye shadow of Kate Bush in Wuthering Heights is the way forward. Her voice connects you to the other-wordly and we adore her directness. We danced to this on stage at Garden Marlborough, last year in New Zealand (www.gardenmarlborough.co.nz). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7857bd7f48c18e80e7f5f/1592235099042/SCRAPBOOK12.jpg Scrapbook Delicate fruits of Spindle Tree (Euonymous europeae) – the light wood was ideal for making wool-spinning spindles (left). A glasshouse in Geneva in a walled garden which is still producing armloads of flowers today by Marina Brandt @Gloriousseeds. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7858524b6a8285b306967/1592235139401/SCRAPBOOK13.jpg Scrapbook We found an old notebook from 1915 of Henrietta’s grandmother, Margery Matthews who wrote notes on everything that interested her including flowers – capturing and recording what she loved. Here she gathers dahlias with her son, Jonathan, in the 1930s. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ef39ae66c86a07a9fc4bb92/1593023287202/SCRAPBOOK+REPLACEMENT+SLIDE15.jpg Scrapbook We love the work of this remarkable family of artists. Sisters Doris and Anna Zinkeisen were war artists, portrait painters and set and costume designers at the Old Vic, London in the 30s and 40s – grandmother and great aunt to wonderful artist Charlotte Johnstone, painting now in Suffolk @charlottejohnstoneportraits. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7859524b6a8285b306aee/1592235298661/SCRAPBOOK15.jpg Scrapbook Mossy growth (Marchantia polymorpha (male A and female B), Meconopsis poppies and flowers of wild apple. Love the simplicity and freshness of these. We pick wild apple lots in spring and bring it into the house. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee7859f915ac6464bf083e0/1592235341987/SCRAPBOOK16.jpg Scrapbook Loving the tie, socks and shoes of Beatrix Havergal – the founder of Waterperry School of Horticulture for women in 1932 - inspiration for the new Land Gardener look. Love green panelling in this old World of Interiors tearsheet. Sorry can’t find the date. Narcissi by August Courtauld. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee785aac6fcc20e01b87d00/1592235371384/SCRAPBOOK17.jpg Scrapbook Longing for a feathered headdress like that of Julie Andrews - photographed here by Cecil Beaton, 1960 - and a sunhat that fastens under the chin like that of Rhoda, Lady Birley. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee785b178b43c6d18f8f7ce/1592235404674/SCRAPBOOK18.jpg Scrapbook Japanese Quince (Chaenomeles japonica – we particularly like Chaenomeles x superba Coral Sea) which we pick in early Spring. We love the perfect balance and gentle command of this circus artist in the plasterwork at Wardington with her diaphanous swirling skirt. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee785bbd3f1531283b61fda/1592235422886/SCRAPBOOK19.jpg Scrapbook Highly recommend a chicken on your arm in lockdown. A still from The Colour of Pomegranates, by Sergei Parajanov, 1969. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee785c6615045584aa39f8e/1593023533856/SCRAPBOOK20.jpg Scrapbook Bird (1959) by George Braque (1882-1963) in the kitchen at Wardington. The entrance to the Orangery at Villa La Pietra, Florence. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee785db8a89cf4389be32b9/1592235583300/SCRAPBOOK22.jpg Scrapbook We have always loved this photograph for its structure, rhythm, and looseness as nature crawls back into and over it. So sorry no idea where this comes from but still looking! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee785e470e0f04061a6aa7b/1592235622375/SCRAPBOOK23.jpg Scrapbook Love light and folds through a curtain at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (left). This photograph by Alexander Rodchencko sitting on the kitchen shelf at Wardington never fails to make us laugh. Us in a couple of years. “The real civilisation begins when people realise that being human is one of the greatest miracles of the universe”- Ben Okri. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ef39b641db6393dc49e73b5/1593023517121/SCRAPBOOK+REPLACEMENT+SLIDE22.jpg Scrapbook Loving ringlets in the hair and sandals of Vaslav Nijinksy (1879-1944) as Narcissus “I am God in a body” he wrote in his diary. Nijinksy, by Romola Nijinksy, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. Loving oil painting in lockdown. A hand-coloured collar-type lotus of 1890 by Kazumasa Ogawa – which represented the attaining of enlightenment (World of Interiors July/August 2020). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7834bcd0cfe139d356b30/5ee785eca5e9a44425dc2530/1593053333568/SCRAPBOOK24.jpg Scrapbook Scenes from Sergei Parajanov’s, Colour of Pomegranates, 1969. Unusual and transporting. This film is luring us east. Celebrating the survival of Armenian culture in the face of oppression, Parajanov called the film “a series of Persian miniatures”. Initially refused distribution outside Armenia by the State Committee of Cinematography, we are grateful the rest of the world got to see it. https://www.thelandgardener.com/walledgarden daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5ef2bb4f5a06263ec1a37a53/1592965974585/WALLED+GARDEN+opener.jpg The Walled Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5eecda32bb782e7540d33bed/1593050929300/WALLED-GARDEN-2.jpg The Walled Garden Above is a movie of the potting shed and the walled garden in the morning with the sound of wind and birds rather than the hum of people going to work. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5ef2bbc7203eee77c1b73bb2/1592966095718/WALLED+GARDEN3.jpg The Walled Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5ef2bc72a364a75fff2f8b5f/1592966269405/WALLED+GARDEN4.jpg The Walled Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5eecdb4ab0bf6b258568b7bb/1593051232667/WALLED-GARDEN-5.jpg The Walled Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5ef2bbf43dd04e1175a1f4dc/1592966141404/WALLED+GARDEN6.jpg The Walled Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5eecda815d3bb83b33c73580/1593052416667/WALLED-GARDEN-7.jpg The Walled Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5ef2bc2f7529da2aef104787/1592966197582/WALLED-GARDEN8.jpg The Walled Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eecda031a841c42a30ee478/5eecdae7aafa6d35ea028b22/1593052544577/WALLED-GARDEN9.jpg The Walled Garden https://www.thelandgardener.com/lilacs daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7c0589796660aa4dfa31e/5ef2c49486b940767f9e09fb/1592968345737/LILACS-opener.jpg Lilacs https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7c0589796660aa4dfa31e/5ee7c090b5e129712da62459/1592246597856/LILACS2.jpg Lilacs Beryl Grey as the Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company which she joined in 1942. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7c0589796660aa4dfa31e/5ee7c0a1b4a0f009a9785bc5/1593058820307/LILACS3.jpg Lilacs We discovered this fascinating article in American Homes and Gardens from 1907. To learn how to force lilacs inside for cutting click on the photo above to link to the archive of this article. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7c0589796660aa4dfa31e/5ef2c4ab175e910064f77e0e/1592968369734/LILACS-end-list.jpg Lilacs https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee7c0589796660aa4dfa31e/5ee7c0ce9cbc990dedfd76b5/1592250416290/LILACS6.jpg Lilacs White lilacs at Wardington at dusk. Music: Lilac Wine by Nina Simone https://www.thelandgardener.com/lilac daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/tulips daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ef3bcf4cd8ed26f574c6fbc/1593031930224/TULIPS-opener.jpg Tulips https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ef3bd1794f41f6fccfb7364/1593031969188/TULIPS-opener2.jpg Tulips https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c40c8ae9b41907cce238/1592313764392/TULIPS2.jpg Tulips Tulips Francoise, Flaming Parrot and Carnival de Rio. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c4150ab7127cfb4475e4/1592581493928/TULIPS3.jpg Tulips Watercolour of unnamed tulip (Tulipa gesneriana) by Alexander Marshall c 1650-82 (left). Tulip Grand Perfection (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c41e9b717b3e78c2e6ba/1592313752907/TULIPS4.jpg Tulips Morning habit 1700 c North Africa and Tulip Mistress Grey. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c4261b0b94368519391a/1592313746192/TULIPS5.jpg Tulips Tulip Sorbet. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c42e0106310a5347748e/1592313799758/TULIPS6.jpg Tulips Tulip Black Charm and an old watercolour of a striped tulip that we found in a market (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c436c014c061e6af5182/1592313833705/TULIPS7.jpg Tulips Tulip Black Hero, Design Impression, Raspberry Ripple and Grand Perfection, Flaming Parrot, Apricot Pride and Helmar (left). Historic print of a wonderful habit of an Ethiopian 1581. The yellow jacket and stripes inspired our planting schemes. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c440eb650d7db301d547/1592313861144/TULIPS8.jpg Tulips Tulip Sorbet (left) and Tulip Carnival de Nice, Estelle Rijnveld and Carousel, Grand Perfection and Flaming Club (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c44bdfaca84624fc258b/1592313891053/TULIPS9.jpg Tulips Tulip Apricot Impression, Spring Green, Purple Pride (left from the front) and Blueberry Ripple (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c4608ae9b41907cced7b/1592313913253/TULIPS10.jpg Tulips Tulip Antoinette and habit of a Dervise, India, 1700. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c469ae790717a6b3052d/1592313943232/TULIPS11.jpg Tulips Tulip White Parrot (left), tulip Violet Beauty, Mickey Mouse, Maureen, Angelique and Flaming Club (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c473a07c9247e42d2c19/1592313972382/TULIPS12.jpg Tulips Tulip Blueberry Ripple, Burning Heart, Orange Favourite, Apricot Pride, Pink Impression (from left to right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c47ba4ea576c7f800527/1592581722371/TULIPS13.jpg Tulips Tulip Salmon Van Eijk and habit of lady of Poland with her Covid mask and fur trim. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c487ff45882d0ed21603/1592314096639/TULIPS14.jpg Tulips Tulip Apricot Pride, Blueberry Ripple and Orange van Eijk. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c4908ae9b41907ccf3f9/1592314128378/TULIPS15.jpg Tulips Dried tulip petals keep their colours and stripes. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c4986bfb3b337c8f0de8/1592314183874/TULIPS16.jpg Tulips Tulip Apricot Impression, Raspberry Ripple, Montreux, Burning Heart, Flaming Parrot, Grand Perfection, Jan Reus, Apricot Parrot and Paul Scherer. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ef3bd4a8b38a9767d97accc/1593043667026/TULIPS-end-list.jpg Tulips For more on tulips, see our book The Land Gardeners Cut Flowers - click on the word tulips above (www.thelandgardeners.com) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8c23aeb650d7db3019a50/5ee8c4aa6c3b040c82aba847/1592315034336/TULIPS18.jpg Tulips Tulips in the polytunnel for early spring picking. https://www.thelandgardener.com/tulip-video daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/daffodils daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8ddce97d2423426d0001e/1593023008938/DAFFODILS2.jpg Daffodils https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ef2a2370bcb5d4c80577717/1592959551335/DAFFODILS2.jpg Daffodils https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8ddf420fcb96252c9987f/1592319955285/DAFFODILS4.jpg Daffodils Frigid – pre 1935, very late flowering, scented, raised in Northern Ireland (left). Cheerfulness AGM – 1920s, mid to late flowering, strong scent, raised in the Netherlands (middle). Irish Minstrel AGM – 1958, strong and vigorous, mid to late flowering, raised in Ireland (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8de4cd49a18233d82061c/1592319999323/DAFFODILS5.jpg Daffodils Easter blooms from Cornish flower fields to London homes in the 1930s (left). Laurens Kosta – pre 1906, flowers mid season, raised in the Netherlands (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8de512e70396b2721c797/1592320022063/DAFFODILS6.jpg Daffodils Southern Gem – 1913, flowers mid season, raised in England (left). Actaea – pre 1919, mid to late season, scented, raised in the Netherlands (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8de622e70396b2721c9fe/1592320047636/DAFFODILS7.jpg Daffodils White Lady – pre 1897, flowers mid season, scented, raised by Rev Engleheart in England. This is one of Ron Scamp’s favourites. It was the delicacy of this beautiful narcissus flowering at Bokelly in Cornwall that sparked our interest in historical daffodils. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8de763392204f2f32aad5/1592320061725/DAFFODILS8.jpg Daffodils Niveth – pre 1931, flowers mid to late season raised by Henry Backhouse in England. Another of Ron Scamp’s favourites (left). Easter Moon – pre 1954, flowers mid to late season, raised in Northern Ireland (right). One of our discoveries in the orchard at Wardington this spring. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8de810363d068a9c29513/1592320080338/DAFFODILS9.jpg Daffodils Sonata – pre 1910, mid to late season, raised by Rev Engleheart in England (left). Lucifer - pre 1890, flowers early to mid season (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8de8e4b36d320537bd593/1592320137610/DAFFODILS10.jpg Daffodils Women picking daffodils on the River Fal, Cornwall in the 1920s. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8dea28d261124c831e047/1592320150946/DAFFODILS11.jpg Daffodils Yellow cheerfulness AGM – pre 1937, late season, raised in the Netherlands (left). Dallas – 1942, tall and late flowering, raised in Scotland (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ef399ca5b9dfc5aebe4b4df/1593022924673/DAFFODILS12.jpg Daffodils https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8dec597d2423426d0289c/1592320373491/DAFFODILS13.jpg Daffodils Martha Washington – pre 1927, mid to late season, raised in the Netherlands (left). Lady Margaret Boscowen – pre 1898, spring, raised by the Rev Engleheart in England (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ee8ded2ec00285a87c57b0d/1592320422733/DAFFODILS14.jpg Daffodils Mrs Langtry – pre 1869, flowers mid to late season, raised by William Backhouse in England (left). Mounthood – 1938, mid season, raised in the Netherlands (right). We pick armfuls of these as cut flowers at Wardington. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ee8ddac8a2c4a1a2fb578d8/5ef2a259fbcf572bfec77768/1592959583233/DAFFODILS.-END.jpg Daffodils https://www.thelandgardener.com/tools daily 0.75 2020-06-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5ef38bb04c5d285cbb591438/1593019447975/TOOLS.jpg Tools https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5eea2d601c12d14b2592f88e/1593139445641/TOOLS2.jpg Tools We love the Sirius Hoe for making drills, taking out deep roots like docks, removing meaty or strong growth (top). The Auva Spade - a superlight spade, good for planting potatoes and dahlias or young trees – even though we prefer to practise no dig we always need a good spade (bottom). On fabric by Lulu Lytle at Soane Britain – Pineapple Frond – www.soane.co.uk. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5eea2d721c12d14b25930199/1593139582207/TOOLS3.jpg Tools From the top. Long Maia Dibber – for making holes for planting seeds or seedlings. The Mira Trowel – brilliant and beautiful. Hydra Hoe - our favourite hoe for removing weeds before they appear. Nunki weeder – great for hand-hoeing All tools shown on blue and white paper from Rococo chocolates –www.rococochocolates.com. Tools available from The Land Gardeners. (click photo) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5eea2d8231491c06748efc08/1592583165440/TOOLS4.jpg Tools Leather tool belt from Floret flower - perfect for mobile phone, permanent markers, plant tags, snips and secateurs. Handmade in leather. www.shop.floretflowers.com. We love these yellow secateurs (GR Pro secateurs) and red snips for picking flowers (Forged snips) from Niwaki. Jakoti sheers brilliant for topiary, cutting up greens, dagging and sheep sheering. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5eea2d931c12d14b259305c8/1592406025213/TOOLS5.jpg Tools This Cornish spade is brilliant for shovelling compost. Shown on wallpaper by Lulu Lytle in collaboration with artist Sophie Coryndon, Soane Britain – Wilton Vine launching spring 2021 – www.soane.co.uk. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5eea2d9d31491c06748f0331/1593139437389/TOOLS6.jpg Tools Handmade Oak Plant Labels (Set of 10). Crafted with sustainably-sourced wood from local British woodlands by artisan-maker Tim Palmer. 35cm x 4cm x 0.6cm. Available from The Landgardeners. (click photo) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5eea2da61ef34f47b37f65dd/1593139519285/TOOLS7.jpg Tools Charlotte our head gardener highly recommends these Okatsune Pro snips, and Toshibo SR-1 secateurs which she carries in this Niwaki double holster. The perfect combination. Tools available from The Landgardeners. (click photo) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5ef38c879463573232951fb1/1593019538710/TOOLS+8.jpg Tools https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5ef38cb22a3bde4033a7afe2/1593019578054/TOOLS9.jpg Tools https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea2d2324ebdb63843e9a8f/5eea2de4987f077112be4cf1/1592405484530/TOOLS10.jpg Tools https://www.thelandgardener.com/pink daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5ef415eac95554554219c398/1593054703236/unnamed.jpg Pink Swirls https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea57b2f6de3d743d310019/1592416768342/PINK2.jpg Pink Swirls Rhododendron Hydon Velvet – pale pink, fading to white. Deeply felted leaves with brown undersurface. Height 80-130cm. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea57bb0ac3195210839aff/1592416773311/PINK3.jpg Pink Swirls Rhododendron Mrs A T de la Mare – large, evergreen upright shrub with glossy, dark foliage. Pale pink buds open to white flowers, slight fragrance. Height 3m (left). Details of fabric from paintings in the spirit of @charlottedicarcaci (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea57ef3fb6a546d74b946f/1592417245509/PINK4.jpg Pink Swirls Branches of Prunus Tai-Haku AGM – The Great White Cherry - beautiful, free-flowering, Japanese cherry, large profuse single white flowers, copper young foliage, medium-sized tree. Height 7-12m (left) and Magnolia stellata – The Star Magnolia - slow-growing, medium-sized spring flowering deciduous shrub with white star-like flowers with gentle scent. Height 3m (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea57fbf6de3d743d31122f/1592416795480/PINK5.jpg Pink Swirls Magnolia loebneri Leonard Messel AGM – small tree or large deciduous shrub with rose to blush pink, star-shaped flowers. Good for small gardens. Height 8m. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea5807f6de3d743d31151a/1592581879879/PINK6.jpg Pink Swirls Magnolia x soulangeana Lennei AGM (left) – pink goblet-shaped flowers fading to white inside which is revealed as flowers open, best planted in a sheltered position in full with or semi-shade with well draining soil. Large dark green leaves. Height 6m (left). Magnolia by Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea58163fb6a546d74ba014/1592416840000/PINK7.jpg Pink Swirls Magnolia stellata (left) and Ranunculus Butterfly – light pink - makes a good cut flower. We grow these in our polytunnel. Otherwise plant ‘claws’ with eyes up in the autumn in pots and over-winter in the greenhouse before bringing into the garden in spring (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea582c4e1555028f9bc938/1592416857346/PINK8.jpg Pink Swirls Peonies Nick Shaylor – late flowering, double white with blush pink fragrant blooms (left) and Bowl of Cream – early to mid flowering, double creamy white fragrant flowers (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea583ca5f4394af463981d/1592416943520/PINK9.jpg Pink Swirls Peony Vogue – a midseason peony, double white, large double flowers opening soft blush pink with a random picture of a tea cup. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea584af1ea7561ebc1faa6/1592417302366/PINK10.jpg Pink Swirls Rosa ‘Aphrodite’ – shell pink hybrid tea rose, fragrant, one of our favourites, with a dress from the dressing up box which belonged to Bridget’s mother-in-law from the 50s. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea585a0e8b9c03c0ef187e/1592581955073/PINK11.jpg Pink Swirls Our studio wall – the ultimate swirling pink – Frank Lloyd Wright contemplated painting the Guggenheim pink. In fact it was originally beige before being painted bright white in 1992. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea5870a5f4394af463aa35/1592417416391/PINK12.jpg Pink Swirls Rosa Paul’s Himalayan Musk – pink powder-puff flowering rambler. Flowers once. Strong fragrance and long graceful arching stems. We love it. Height 12m. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea587f220066720b70e6ea/1592417407954/PINK13.jpg Pink Swirls Climbing rose - A Shropshire Lad – 6m tall, peachy pink with soft fruity fragrance, bred by David Austin, 3m tall - with a shell from the Birth of Venus by Botticelli. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea588d3bf8010350e2264c/1592417502792/PINK14.jpg Pink Swirls A detail from Les Sylphides by Theyre Lee-Elliott. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea589d3bf8010350e229b1/1592666106081/PINK15.jpg Pink Swirls Rosa Cupid – flesh pink single flowers on once flowering climber, orange hips in autumn, height 3mm (left) and mint chocolate chip ice-cream from HOW I COOK by Skye Gyngell -page 83. (click on photo to purchase) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea58af11712b5c46847106/1592417811162/PINK16.jpg Pink Swirls An unknown picture of pale pink and lilac iris with white clematis climbing over an old stone wall – if you recognise it please let us know (left). The Annunciation (1440-1445) by Fra Angelico in the Convent of San Marco, Florence (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea58c04e1555028f9bee6e/1592417829622/PINK17.jpg Pink Swirls A study of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll c1930 by John Lavery (1856 -1941) at Philip Mould Gallery (left). Rosa Madame Alfred Carriere – climbing rose, with creamy white flowers with hint of blush pink, few thorns, fragrant, repeat flowering, tall strong growth, good for a shady wall, height 7m. One of our favourite climbing roses (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea58cf16de4331ab16dbdb/1592582220656/PINK18.jpg Pink Swirls Pink drawing room of Ben Pentreath and Charlie McCormick painted with parsonage pink paint (www.papersandpaints.co.uk) with regale lilies (lilium regale) planted in terracotta pots and an old collection of pressed ferns on the wall – @benpentreath, @charliemccormick. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea58e46868735259b8b968/1592417890873/PINK19.jpg Pink Swirls A detail from Thick Folds of Paint by M L Oddie (left). An old silver cup of roses. Rosa Seafoam with clusters of creamy-white double blooms, glossy dark-green foliage, trailing and continuous blooming. Peony Miss America – white, fragrant, early to mid-season peony and Rosa Heritage – shell pink, David Austin shrub rose with strong fragrance (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5eea58fa85ac2728a1213871/1592417910856/PINK20.jpg Pink Swirls A stray poppy. Who knows which variety?! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5ef343f6fb45df1a893a7bf9/1593000955699/PINK+Erin+try+2.jpg Pink Swirls https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eea57066868735259b8518f/5ef333f8a364a75fff3aa0b6/1592996860537/PINK-Erin2+%282%29.jpg Pink Swirls https://www.thelandgardener.com/gardenbooks daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eeb61fc82dc2a46f7e6645d/5ef33b908b9e73372b0241f5/1593019858865/BOOKS-OPENERS.jpg Garden Books https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eeb61fc82dc2a46f7e6645d/5ef33bf82b1e9a74dc9c4731/1593019858877/BOOKS-OPENERS2.jpg Garden Books Image courtesy of the Garden Museum, © Estate of Russell Page https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eeb61fc82dc2a46f7e6645d/5ef33c16c1672d3382e2e22a/1593019858881/BOOKS.jpg Garden Books Image courtesy of the Garden Museum, © Estate of Russell Page https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eeb61fc82dc2a46f7e6645d/5ef33ba95a06263ec1af8420/1593019858873/BOOKS2.jpg Garden Books Paul Bangay's well used copy of The Education of a Gardener. Photographed by Barry McNeil https://www.thelandgardener.com/bunches daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5ef388dd0ddefe79921b9eb6/1593018596885/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE+opener.jpg Bunches of Love https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5eec9e531251976408668069/1592582462056/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE2.jpg Bunches of Love Exochorda x macrantha The Bride, Delphinium Lord Butler, lilacs and apple blossom, tulips Spring Green, Grand Perfection, Helmar, Spring Green, Burning Heart, Flaming Parrot, Paul Scherer, Brown Sugar, Raspberry Ripple, Ranunculus (left) Lilacs (Syringa Charles Joly and Katherine Havemeyer) and Delphinium Loch Nevis, Euphorbia, Ammi, Solomon’s Seal, Ranunculus, Narcissus (right) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5eec9e63d23c4e27b45f1a0c/1592578567336/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE3.jpg Bunches of Love Sweet rocket, Orlaya grandiflora, Ammi majus, Digitalis Sutton’s Apricot, Euphorbia oblongata, Centranthus ruber, tulips Grand Perfection, Sorbet and Francoise, white ranunculus and delphiniums (left). Ammi, spirea, Delphinium Blue Dawn, lilacs, tulips Flaming Parrot, Tulip Sorbet, Spring Green, Helmar, Sutton’s apricot, white pink and red ranunculus, euphorbia oblongata. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5eec9e73e29d0b7fa437c8dc/1592567156694/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE4.jpg Bunches of Love Double white lilacs (Syringa Madame Lemoine) Delphinium Cupid, Hesperis matronalis – white and lavender, Rose Olivia Rose Austin, Digitalis purpurea, Digitalis Sutton’s Apricot, Centranthus ruber, aquilegias, foliage of Rosa Alba Semi-Plena and Euphorbia oblongata. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5eec9e8171de8647f87effda/1592566268381/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE5.jpg Bunches of Love Tulips Belle Epoque, Blueberry Ripple, Grand Perfection, Flaming Heart, and white, red and pink ranunculus. Lilacs (Syringa Charles Joly and Syringa Katherine Havemeyer) (left). Tulips Flaming Parrot, Pink Impression, Rasperry Ripple, Blueberry Ripple, Mickey Mouse, Burning Heart and Black Charm, Apricot Pride, Flaming Parrot and Spring Green. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5eec9eadaafa6d35eafa4e4f/1592566301255/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE6.jpg Bunches of Love Lilacs, aquilegia, iris, Rosa Heritage, blackcurrant leaf, Delphinium Lord Butler, double white lilac (Syringa Madame Lemoine), Hesperis matronalis – both white and purple, Digitalis purpurea (left). Lilac (Syringa Charles Joly), euphorbia oblongata, spirea, lily flowered tulip Marilyn, tulip Blueberry Ripple and Ammi majus. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5eec9ebf5d3bb83b33bea67b/1592566367197/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE7.jpg Bunches of Love Tulips Belle Epoque, Violet Beauty, Burning Heart, Grand Perfection, Ivory Floradale, Brown Sugar, Design impression, Raspberry Ripple, Blueberry Ripple, Black Charm, Fringed Elegance and Sorbet. Lilacs (Syringa Katherine Havemeyer), Delphinium Cupid, apple blossom, white and pink ranunculus, tulips Helmar, Blueberry Ripple, Spring Green and Exorchorda x macrantha The Bride. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5eec9ee6bb782e7540cb3ea5/1592567360122/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE8.jpg Bunches of Love No nonsense instructions on how to arrange flowers from “Down The Garden Path” by Beverley Nichols, published 1932, Jonathan Cape Ltd. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec938bd23c4e27b45e05c0/5ef38903f767b55175e72eb0/1593018633717/BUNCHES+OF+LOVE+end+list.jpg Bunches of Love https://www.thelandgardener.com/farms daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef336ad37cfa455b6ee36c4/1592997556276/FORAGING1.jpg Farms to feed us https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef336d0518cd32c6b5720b8/1592997592018/FORAGING2.jpg Farms to feed us https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5eec94c291751c60400c10b9/1592563158998/FARMING+FORAGING3.jpg Farms to feed us Rhubarb and spring greens gathered in the early hours. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5eec94cc06289962835ddaed/1592563185654/FARMING+FORAGING4.jpg Farms to feed us Spinach, sown at the end of last summer and picked this spring (left). Primrose petals and white borage flowers – both beautiful and edible (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5eec94d6fd7b7d28e5703377/1592563214370/FARMING+FORAGING5.jpg Farms to feed us Boxes of spring greens, herbs, rhubarb and tulips ready to be delivered to local clients at the beginning of lockdown. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef336f7e0a90307ed1410ad/1592997629883/FORAGING6.jpg Farms to feed us https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef3372d203eee77c1c3050b/1592997683181/FORAGING7.jpg Farms to feed us https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5eec94fc6d9e375feda0a451/1592563273178/FARMING+FORAGING7.jpg Farms to feed us Wild garlic carpets the woods in spring. We pick armfuls of leaves and flowers to eat, and bring the flowers in tiny vases into the house. It is so good for your health: anti-bacterial, containing vitamins A, C, calcium, iron, phosphorous, sodium and copper and possibly anti-viral, it may also reduce blood pressure. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5eec9506ecea7773b3a61760/1592563319250/FARMING+FORAGING8.jpg Farms to feed us We love wild garlic pesto (left) and gathering nettles (right). Nettles act as a host for butterfly larvae like the small tortoiseshell and the peacock. The leaves are full of nitrogen for composting and we use them for nettle teas. The seeds are a nutritious food source for birds, shrews and other wildlife. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef399396c86a07a9fc4694a/1593022783725/FORAGING10.jpg Farms to feed us https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5eec951caafa6d35eaf95d8e/1592563323898/FARMING+FORAGING10.jpg Farms to feed us We love edible flowers in our salads; primroses (left) and colourful sweet rocket, calendula and borage flowers (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5eec9528ecea7773b3a61a35/1592563357412/FARMING+FORAGING11.jpg Farms to feed us Early summer this year we gathered lilacs to make delicious cordial inspired by Nicola Hart, the founder of the delicious kefir www.aguademadre.co.uk (middle). A delicate lilac watercolour by botanical artist Emma Tenant (www.katiepertwee.com) (right). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef339365a06263ec1af47ae/1592998204000/CHICKEN-LOVE.jpg Farms to feed us https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef3394bfc17bd3ade02f106/1592998645270/CHICKEN+LOVE2.jpg Farms to feed us Warren hybrid and Blue Orpington hens and Richard, the white Leghorn cockerel. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef3395611b70839c816a684/1592998564145/CHICKEN-LOVE3.jpg Farms to feed us Let me down! Lilac with her Polish Bantam. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef3396a5092c93393174f06/1592998256594/CHICKEN-LOVE4.jpg Farms to feed us https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef33987a364a75fff3b33cf/1592998636026/CHICKEN+LOVE5.jpg Farms to feed us One broody Blue Orpington from the front and the fluffy back. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef33991e0a90307ed144895/1592998667501/CHICKEN+LOVE6.jpg Farms to feed us Blue Orpington and Warren hybrid hens on each side of Ray the white Sussex cockerel (since eaten by a fox). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9468e29d0b7fa436ddb5/5ef339a3e0a90307ed14495b/1593018760314/CHICKEN+LOVE7.jpg Farms to feed us Charlie McCormick's New Love https://www.thelandgardener.com/soil daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef38f72ede7740b6b73c1b7/1593020280446/SOIL.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5eec977171de8647f87e468e/1592594454565/SOIL2.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef38f9f9f3f4e414434df18/1593020325720/SOIL3.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef38fc2297999447ce865b0/1593020362906/SOIL4.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef3900e0f346d64d484c7dd/1593020438516/SOIL5.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef3903807ce8217dca0abfa/1593020479503/SOIL6.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef3905d07ce8217dca0b77a/1593020522605/SOIL7.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5eec97d1bb782e7540ca9923/1592668123553/SOIL10.jpg Soil Heliozoa-protist (left) These are microbial eukaryotes with stiff arms radiating from their spherical bodies, undergoing a cell division here. Fungi (right) 80% of plants are colonised by fungi that form the familiar network of fine white threads - mycorrhizae which take in water and minerals from the soil, in exchange for nutrients from the plant. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5eec97d9494b5d491f5365ac/1592582720926/SOIL11.jpg Soil Cyanobacteria (left)are a phylum consisting of free-living photosynthetic bacteria, annually causing water blooms all around the world. They were the first organisms that produced oxygen in our atmosphere. Nematode (right) are ubiquitous soil organisms-about a mm long and a few microns wide. They fill several functions in the soil, eating roots, fungi, bacteria, other nematodes. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5eec97e129d8f705fe69b1a5/1592564112324/SOIL12.jpg Soil Bacteria (left) There are three basic bacterial shapes are coccus (spherical), bacillus (rod-shaped), and spiral (twisted), here you can see lots of bacillus and cocci bacteria. Cillate-protist (right) This is a protozoa with hair like organelles which they use for locomotion and food/nutrients/prey gathering. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef3907f713cb372359ca0af/1593020552834/SOIL11.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef390a60ddefe79921d02fe/1593020602260/SOIL12.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5ef390c6798a7b5b2d5ee9cd/1593020621805/SOIL13.jpg Soil https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec96f97b14bd0e80d58b03/5eec981d6d9e375feda0efbb/1593021235897/SOIL17.jpg Soil Our wormery at Wardington with microphones inside it recording the sounds of worms. https://www.thelandgardener.com/climate daily 0.75 2020-06-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9ab6fc557a429eb10191/5ef3937bb5869d0dd7515081/1593021314973/CLIMATE+COMPOST1.jpg Climate Compost https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9ab6fc557a429eb10191/5ef393906c86a07a9fc34b1a/1593021338230/CLIMATE+COMPOST2.jpg Climate Compost https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9ab6fc557a429eb10191/5ef393a54dfb164916709082/1593099884281/CLIMATE+COMPOST3.jpg Climate Compost The sheep shed with old bedding at the end of lambing (left). Catie on Avant turning the compost on day two .(middle) Catie measuring the temperature of the piles. We turn them when they are between 58 and 65 degrees. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9ab6fc557a429eb10191/5ef393c54c5d285cbb5ac698/1593021387425/CLIMATE+COMPOST4.jpg Climate Compost https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5eec9ab6fc557a429eb10191/5efb4e0f6ba2d67e57240fac/1593527860343/unnamed.jpg Climate Compost A Dance with Soil video https://www.thelandgardener.com/hello daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/ourgarden daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ed4e6803967047b65ad9/1593044311986/IN-OUR-GARDENS-Bokelly.jpg In Our Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ed752b873309e548b2fc/1593045301064/IN+OUR+GARDENS2.jpg In Our Garden Looking back at the house through ox-eye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare), red campion (Silene diocia) and cow parsley (Anthiscus sylvestris). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ed989c952511978b3a39/1593045297134/IN+OUR+GARDENS3.jpg In Our Garden Through a froth of sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis alba) to hummocks of box in long grass. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3edc9acde830a0b60207d/1593045292913/IN+OUR+GARDENS4.jpg In Our Garden Borage (Borago officinalis). An old wives’ tale states that if a woman slipped borage into a promising man’s drink it would give him the courage to propose! Put the flowers in ice cubes for summer drinks. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ede72b873309e548c5bf/1593045336044/IN+OUR+GARDENS5.jpg In Our Garden Hazel teepees for sweat peas with shrub roses and valerian (Valeriana officinalis). We grow this for our biodynamic preparation 507 which we use on our compost heaps. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3edfee37edb2f1272845a/1593045342432/IN+OUR+GARDENS6.jpg In Our Garden We leave Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) to seed itself around the cutting garden. It makes a wonderful tall cut flower. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ee1f9c952511978b5023/1593045366407/IN+OUR+GARDENS7.jpg In Our Garden Rosa Royal Jubilee is one of our favourite roses for cutting – as are foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) which seed themselves around the garden. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ee3a93fc2660294e0d72/1593045400446/IN+OUR+GARDENS8.jpg In Our Garden Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea), borage (Borago officinalis), feverfew (Tanecetum parthenium) and angelica (Angelica archangelica) in the medicinal herb border. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ee59c1cfc77b35e2f217/1593045407446/IN+OUR+GARDENS9.jpg In Our Garden An old Cornish stone wall froths with daisies (Erigeron karvinskianus) and white valerian (Centranthus ruber albus). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ee7b83a8bc731575738f/1593045429085/IN+OUR+GARDENS10.jpg In Our Garden Linaria purpurea ‘Canonwent’ is short-lived but a good self-seeder and good for picking. The old rose - Rosa mundi – pre 1600 is once flowering but worth it for its fabulous stripe. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ee96e486fd44dc4b5ad6/1593045447212/IN+OUR+GARDENS11.jpg In Our Garden Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa) in the field – known as Sour Ducks as its leaves taste tart in salads. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3eeb3ae574d50c659cb92/1593044668789/IN-OUR-GARDENS-Wardington.jpg In Our Garden https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3eecaa754194ab88efeb0/1593045587020/IN+OUR+GARDENS13.jpg In Our Garden We pick boughs of blossom from the old apple trees in the orchard – and cow parsley, camassias and daffodils. I spy with my little eye the topiary at the top of the pond walk. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3eeedc3ea9b156f00faab/1593045633892/IN+OUR+GARDENS14.jpg In Our Garden We wait for this moment each spring – the scent of the wisteria floods in through the bedroom windows. Honeysuckle winds over the old garden gate. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3eef84ae5a860ec742bc9/1593045656694/IN+OUR+GARDENS15.jpg In Our Garden Old lilacs drape themselves around the nun’s bathing pond and young Gunnera manicata throws up its young leaves. Rosa Moonlight is about to open and the yellow iris threaten to engulf the landing. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ef24e37edb2f1272b256/1593045683320/IN+OUR+GARDENS16.jpg In Our Garden Rosa Sally Holmes which froths away all summer long and Verbascum Pink Kisses in the bottom lawn borders. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ef3dc8ff317596b8d105/1593045764747/IN+OUR+GARDENS17.jpg In Our Garden Here we are early one morning picking at the back of the border. Cephalaria gigantea, Thalictrum flavum subsp glaucum (yellow meadow rue) and Thalictrum Elin tower high above our heads. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ef56afc08b727c30035a/1593045805118/IN+OUR+GARDENS18.jpg In Our Garden The Cephaleria gigantea is a little bit thuggish in the borders but we do not mind as each year we dig up clumps and move it into the long grass in the orchard where it is kept in check. Seen here with an old wild species roses which arches like a fountain over the long grass. We love picking it for events when you need long trails of pink. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ef78ec071a338d9dae71/1593045865953/IN+OUR+GARDENS20.jpg In Our Garden Nature is creeping in down by the boat shed where we have planted many old species roses and lilacs this year after finding old plans from the 1920’s (left). Looking out from the main stairwell onto a tapestry of grasses and flowers which popped up when we let the billiard table lawn run wild. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3ef6e3f43e215418fa469/1593045870529/IN+OUR+GARDENS19.jpg In Our Garden Up in the Cutting Garden a mix of various Delphinium elatum have loved the warm weather this spring. Mounds of Euphorbia oblongata and wulfenii march up through valerian (Valeriana officianalis) to the rows of cutting roses at the back of the garden. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef3ecd4e37edb2f12725300/5ef3efc8afc08b727c301576/1593056274493/IN+OUR+GARDENS21.jpg In Our Garden https://www.thelandgardener.com/contributors daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef3965807ce8217dca1dc49/1593056852216/Paul+B.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef3959848d93f3358be3a20/1593056807349/Catie.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef41d224ae5a860ec7a3b63/1593056770512/b+and+H.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef41d5e83a8bc73157ba262/1593056830067/emmanuel.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef394c8a60cdc7c58bfba08/1593056888246/Kay.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef299c309a6bc7fa3fc115a/1593056864635/Jacs.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef395596c86a07a9fc3a43f/1593056783421/BB.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef396365b9dfc5aebe412c6/1593056841551/Charlie.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef331390a396c0f9dd33ef1/1593056876016/erin+text+2.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef3958207ce8217dca1b561/1593056794093/Charlotte+H.jpg Contributors https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef284eef0465a7436de2cb9/1592952661763/Michelle.jpg Contributors https://www.thelandgardener.com/barbra daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://www.thelandgardener.com/pomegranates daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/ducks daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://www.thelandgardener.com/seeds daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef38dd2b5869d0dd7502bf5/5ef4c7ebcb4a5e5db1e6d3ab/1593100277471/SEEDS.jpg Seeds https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef38dd2b5869d0dd7502bf5/5ef4c7f2e5a2240b8ba3d883/1593100285061/SEEDS2.jpg Seeds https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef38dd2b5869d0dd7502bf5/5ef4c7fe54d36c3cf19b3b73/1593100537675/SEEDS3.jpg Seeds https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef38dd2b5869d0dd7502bf5/5ef4c804664c9e2ea4ef8126/1593100547448/SEEDS4.jpg Seeds https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/5ef38dd2b5869d0dd7502bf5/5ef4c80a54d36c3cf19b3c32/1593100308752/SEEDS5.jpg Seeds https://www.thelandgardener.com/sounds daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://www.thelandgardener.com/potting daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/toc daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebed32ede77c64642d9f74e/t/5ef3b5485013394585d1d7d7/1593031551145/ToC+%281%29.jpg Table of contents https://www.thelandgardener.com/cuttings daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/preparing daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/sewing daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/end daily 0.75 2020-06-25 https://www.thelandgardener.com/dance daily 0.75 2020-06-29